I Know What I Saw

by S K Sharp

  I hope it’s enough.

  I sit for a while, watching the flames, then head up the stairs for bed, and Dec. I don’t know where this is going to take us, but it doesn’t matter. Somewhere new. Somewhere that isn’t the past.

  Acknowledgements

  Thanks are due to a lot of people, some of whom I can name, some of whom remain anonymous. Mostly I’d like to thank my agent, Robert Dinsdale, who put a huge amount of effort into trying to make this project work, even if I was a little hard to work with at times, and Sonny, whose editorial notes unerringly found ways to make the story stronger. Thanks also to Mandy Greenfield, who did the copy-edit, to Dan Balado for proof-reading and to the Arrow production and publicity teams. And a special thank you to my wife Michaela, whose endless curiosity first brought hyperthymesia to my attention, along with the throw-away you should use this in a book, and whose patience was sorely tested by the consequences …

  THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

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  First published in ebook by Arrow Books in 2020

  This paperback edition first published in the UK by Arrow Books in 2021

  Copyright © Stephen Deas 2020

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  Cover image © Magdalena Russocka / Trevillion Images

  ISBN: 978-1-473-57910-1

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